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Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for February 17, 2022
The Number of the Day columns published on Ballotpedia reflect the views of the author.
February 17, 2022: During the pandemic, 61% of voters believe leading public health officials followed the politics, not the science. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that 26% disagree and 14% are not sure.[1]
Seventy-four percent (74%) of Republicans believe public health officials followed politics rather than science. So do 56% of independent voters and 50% of Democrats.[1]
The survey also found that 57% of voters believe vaccine mandates made supply chain problems worse. Twenty-nine percent (29%) disagree.[1]
Fifty percent (50%) believe government mandates made the pandemic worse than it had to be. Forty percent (40%) disagree with that assessment.[1]
Methodology
The survey of 1,200 registered voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on February 10-13, 2022. Fieldwork for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. Certain quotas were applied, and the sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage, and political party to reasonably reflect the nation’s population of registered voters. Other variables were reviewed to ensure that the final sample is representative of that population.
The margin of sampling error for the full sample is +/- 2.8 percentage points.
Note: Neither Scott Rasmussen, ScottRasmussen.com, nor RMG Research, Inc. have any affiliation with Rasmussen Reports. While Scott Rasmussen founded that firm, he left nearly a decade ago and has had no involvement since that time.
Each weekday, Scott Rasmussen’s Number of the Day explores interesting and newsworthy topics at the intersection of culture, politics, and technology.
- February 16, 2022- 59 percent of voters say it's time to put the pandemic behind us; return to normal life
- February 15, 2022- 40 percent of voters think the worst of the pandemic is behind us
- February 14, 2022- 54 percent of voters believe that more freedom leads to more equality
- February 11, 2022- 54 percent of voters say it’s important to have a black woman on the Supreme Court
- February 10, 2022- 26 percent of voters want to increase the number of Supreme Court justices
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See also
- Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day
- Federal government responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020-2022
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